Re: win2k/cygwin cannot handle even moderately sized packs

> So the problem is probably memory fragmentation.

probably.

> You might have more joy if you allocated one HUGE chunk immediately on
> startup to use for the pack, and then kept re-using that chunk.

Well, it is not _one_ chunk. The windows/cygwin abomin...combination
may take an issue with this: it seem to copy complete address space
at fork, which even for such a small packs I have here takes system
down lightly (yes, I tried it).

Incidentally, is there a way to cut a big pack into a lot of smaller packs?
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